INTRODUCTION
top5gadgetreviews.com respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information that may be collected by top5gadgetreviews.com (the “Site”), and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. It does not apply to information collected by us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by us or any third-party or by any third-party that may link to or be accessible from or on the Site.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, do not use the Site.
By accessing or using the Site, you agree to the terms of this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time as described below. Your continued use of the Site after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
1. TYPES OF INFORMATION COLLECTED
In order to better provide you with the Website, we collect two types of information about our users:
- Personally Identifiable Information and
- Non-Personally Identifiable Information.
Our primary goal in collecting information from you is to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience while using the Website.
1.1. PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
Personally Identifiable Information refers to information that lets us know the specifics of who You are. When you engage in certain activities on the Website, submitting content and/or posting content in discussion forums or other public areas, or sending us feedback, we may ask you to provide certain information about you by filling out and submitting an online form. It is completely optional for You to engage in these activities. If You elect to engage in these activities, however, We may ask that You provide Us with Personally Identifiable Information, such as Your first and last name, mailing address, email address, birth date, age, gender, telephone and facsimile numbers, short message service (SMS) or text message address or other wireless device address, and other personal identifying information. In addition, we may collect certain other Personally Identifiable Information, including Your IP address when you use the Website.
1.2. NON-PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
Non-Personally Identifiable Information refers to information that does not by itself identify a specific individual. We gather certain information about you based upon where You visit on the Website in several ways. This information is compiled and analyzed on both an individual and an aggregated basis. This information may include the Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) of the website that you just came from, which URL you next go to, what browser you are using, the type of operating system you have.
2. COLLECTION METHODS AND USE OF INFORMATION
2.1. You provide certain Personally Identifiable Information to us when: you send email messages, submit forms, submit comments or rankings, or transmit other information by telephone or letter. We may also collect information from you at other points on the Website.
2.2. In addition, we may also collect, or our third party ad server and/or content server may collect, certain Non-Personally Identifiable Information. This information is ultimately stored in the form of store categories, and, in some cases, specific URLs. We use your IP address to diagnose problems with our servers, software, to administer the Website and prevent fraud.
2.3. Our third party ad servers will also provide us with summary, but not individual, reports that will tell us how many ads were presented and clicked upon at the Website. We also may use this information taken together to analyze usage of the Website, Services, promotions and online media.
2.4. We also reserve the right to use aggregate or group data about our visitors for any other lawful purposes. Aggregate or group data is data that describes the demographics, usage and/or characteristics of our visitors as a group. By visiting, and/or supplying your Personally Identifiable Information via the Website and other online media, you agree to allow us to provide such aggregate data to any third parties at our discretion, as lawfully permitted.
2.5. We will primarily use your Personally Identifiable Information to provide the Services to you, as required by our agreements with you. We may also use Personally Identifiable Information to enhance the operation of the Website, fill orders, prevent fraud, improve our marketing and promotional efforts, statistically analyze the Website use and customize the Website’s content, layout, and services.
2.6. We may use Personally Identifiable Information to deliver information to you and to contact you regarding administrative notices. We may also use Personally Identifiable Information to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, and enforce our agreements with you, including the Website’s Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy.
2.7. Where we intend to process your information for a purpose other than the purpose for which it was collected, we will provide you with information regarding the purpose for the processing, as well as other relevant information, prior to processing your information for the new purpose.
3. RELEASE OF INFORMATION AND OPT-OUT
3.1. We reserve the right to share the postal addresses, phone numbers or email addresses of users with third parties, such as advertisers. To prevent us from sharing this information in the future, please email us via review@top5gadgetreviews.com. Occasionally, we send e-mail messages to users to inform them of features and services available on our Website.
3.2. Occasionally, we may be required by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide Personally Identifiable Information to the appropriate governmental authorities. We will disclose Personally Identifiable Information upon receipt of a court order, subpoena, or to cooperate with a law enforcement investigation. We cooperate with law enforcement agencies in identifying those who use the Services for illegal activities. We reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we in good faith believe to be unlawful.
3.3. We may also provide Non-Personally Identifiable Information about our customers’ traffic patterns, and related Website information to third party advertisers, but these statistics do not include any Personally Identifiable Information.
3.4. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. This type of advertising is known as interest-based advertising.
3.5. We may also work with third parties that collect data about your use of the Website and other sites or apps over time for non-advertising purposes. We use Google Analytics and other third-party services to improve the performance of the Website and for analytics and marketing purposes. For more information about how Google Analytics collects and uses data when you use the Website, visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and to opt out of Google Analytics, visit tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
4. VISITORS FROM THE EEA, THE UK AND SWITZERLAND
4.1. This section applies to those that visit the Website or interact with us from the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the UK, or Switzerland.
4.2. We process your information (i.e., Personally Identifiable Information and Non-Personally Identifiable Information) with your consent. On other occasions, we may process your information when it needs to do this to fulfill a contract (e.g., to comply with contracts with our business partners) or where required to do this by law. If necessary, we may also process your information when it is in our legitimate interests to do this (e.g., for direct marketing purposes) and when these interests are not overridden by your data protection rights.
4.3. If you wish to exercise the right to withdraw consent, please contact us review@top5gadgetreviews.com
5. YOURS RIGHTS AND CHOICES
5.1. You have a right to the following:
5.1.1. To request access to the information we hold about you;
5.1.2. To request that we rectify or erase your information;
5.1.3. To request that we restrict or block the processing of your information;
5.1.4. Under certain circumstances, to receive information about you that we store and transmit to another without hindrance from us, including requesting that we provide your information directly to another, i.e., a right to data portability; and
5.1.5. Where we previously obtained your consent, to withdraw consent to processing your information.
5.2. To exercise these rights, please contact us review@top5gadgetreviews.com. See the “Miscellaneous Privacy Issues” section below. Please be aware that we may be unable to afford these rights to your under certain circumstances, such as if we are legally prevented from doing so.
6. RETENTION
6.1. We will process and store your information only for the period necessary to achieve the purpose of the storage, or as permitted by law. The criteria used to determine the period of storage of information is the respective statutory retention period or consistent with our internal data retention practices. After expiration of that period, the corresponding information is routinely deleted, as long as it is no longer necessary for the fulfillment of a contract or the initiation of a contract.
7. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
7.1. Under California’s “Shine the Light” law California Civil Code Section 1798.83, California residents who provide Personally Identifiable Information in obtaining products or services for personal, family or household use are entitled to request and obtain from us once a calendar year information about the customer information we shared, if any, with other businesses for their own direct marketing uses.
7.2. To obtain this information on behalf of postafun.com, please send an email message to review@top5gadgetreviews.com with “Request for California Privacy Information” in the subject line and in the body of your message. We will provide the requested information to you at your email address in response.
7.3. The Website and partners are using technologies to process personal information, the information includes IP addresses, pseudonymous identifiers associated with cookies, and mobile ad ID’s when available. The reason this information is processed is to measure the performance of ads and content, identify insights about audiences that have engaged with the ads and content, personalize content based on audience engagement, and optimize marketing campaigns. Data is a vital piece of our business and how we operate our Website.
8. SECURITY OF INFORMATION
At the Website you can be assured that your Personally Identifiable Information is secure, consistent with current industry standards. The importance of security for all Personally Identifiable Information associated with our user is of utmost concern to us. Your Personally Identifiable Information is protected in several ways. Your Personally Identifiable Information resides on a secure server that only our selected personnel and contractors have access to via password. We encrypt Your Personally Identifiable Information and thereby prevent unauthorized parties from viewing such information when it is transmitted to us. Personal information that you provide that is not Personally Identifiable Information also resides on a secure server and is only accessible via password.
9. COOKIE POLICY
9.1. A cookie is a small data text file, which the Website stores on your computer’s hard drive (if your web browser permits) that can later be retrieved to identify you.
9.2. While using the Website we will store cookies on your computer in order to facilitate and customize your use of the Website. Our cookies store randomly assigned user identification numbers. The cookies make your use of the Website easier, make the Website run more smoothly and help us to maintain a secure Website.
9.3. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, but some parts of the Website may not work properly in that case.
9.4. Cookies are not designed to get data from your hard drive, your email account or any other Personally Identifiable Information. Cookies are used to store information about a visitor’s preferences and history in order to better serve the visitor and/or present the visitor with customized ads, content and/or services.
9.5. We may use an outside ad serving company to display banner advertisements on the Website. As part of their service, they will place a separate cookie on your computer. We will not provide any third-party ad server with any of your Personally Identifiable Information.
9.6. We and our third party ad server will collect and use Non-Personally Identifiable Information about you, such as Your IP address, browser type, the server your computer is logged onto, the area code and zip code associated with your server and whether you responded to a particular ad. Other advertisers may also place banner ads on the Website in the same manner as above, but we will not disclose any Personally Identifiable Information to them. For more information about cookies, visit https://allaboutcookies.org/what-is-a-cookie.
10. PRIVACY POLICIES OF THIRD PARTY SITES
10.1. Except as otherwise discussed in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. Other websites accessible through postafun.com have their own privacy policies and data collection, use and disclosure practices. Please consult each website’s privacy policy.
10.2. We are not responsible for the policies or practices of third parties. Additionally, other companies which place advertising on the Website may collect information about you while viewing or clicking on their advertising through the use of cookies. We cannot control this collection of information. You should contact these advertisers directly if you have any questions about their use of the information that they collect.
11. MISCELLANEOUS PRIVACY ISSUES
11.1. You must be at least 13 years old to use this Website. Our policy is that we do not knowingly collect, use or disclose Personally Identifiable Information about visitors that are under 13 years of age.
11.2. You should also be aware that when Personally Identifiable Information is voluntarily disclosed (i.e. your name, email address, etc.) in the discussion forums or other public areas on this Website, that information, along with any information disclosed in your communication, can be collected and used by third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from third parties. Such activities are beyond our control and this Privacy Policy does not apply to such information. Any submissions to chat rooms or other public areas on this Website are accepted with the understanding that they are accessible to all third parties.
11.3. If you do not want your comments to be viewed by third parties, you are advised not to make any submissions. Please be careful and responsible whenever you’re online.
12. CONTACTING US
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy please contact us by email at review@top5gadgetreviews.com
